Preposition: of

• contention: The only bone of contention was Mahler's music, which Bridge found not to his taste.

Converse of object

• cremate: Their cremated bones were placed in an urn under a large stone in the southern part of the cairn.

Adjective modifier

• broken: Her grip, it's crushing, grinding the broken bones in his hands together.

• bare: The following is the bare bones of the speech Lord Shore gave at the 1999 AGM.

• brittle: Osteoporosis Osteoporosis -- or brittle bones -- is one of the major health concerns for older women.

• burnt: One of the burial urns contained only the burnt ear bones of an infant - was this a strange sacrifice?

• trabecular: Values can be obtained for whole bones or joints, or bone cortex or trabecular bone alone.

• pelvic: Compression can also occur if the cord is between the baby's head and the mother's pelvic bone before or during delivery.

Modifies a noun

• marrow: With my first taste of roast bone marrow with parsley salad was born my enduring love of meat, nose to tail.

• density: There was no difference in bone density at the wrist within the twin pairs.

• china: The shape was produced in Spode's white bone china.

• transplant: Further, bone marrow transplants can be complicated by " Graft versus Host " disease.

• mineral: The bone mineral density changes were compared with a control group of 15 untreated women.

• transplantation: Bone marrow transplantation from an HLA identical sibling donor offers the only hope of long-term survival.

Noun used with modifier

• thigh: Femur - the upper leg or thigh bone - the longest bone in the body.

• shin: Tibia - the lower leg or shin bone - the second largest bone in the body.

• collar: I've had Achilles trouble and complications from a broken collar bone in the past.

• dinosaur: A three day science and technology extravaganza explored all aspects of science from rockets and robots, to DNA and dinosaur bones.

• jaw: On the third day I started to notice tenderness around the rear left side of the jaw bone.

• heel: With unaccustomed activity the tight achilles pulls the heel bone causing tension on the plantar fascia.